Hotel Sovietsky

This classic traditional hotel features 107 comfortable rooms and suites that are named after various famous Russian leaders — including Stalin. It offers a fairly lavish experience, upscale service and a decent spread of amenities including a good restaurant, billiards and fitness facilities.

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Location

8/10

Situated on the big and bustling Lenningradsky highway, the hotel lies close to The Romen Theatre, a short distance from the major exhibition centres (Expocentre, Crocus Expo), Bakulev Cardiovascular Surgery Center, as well as several interesting museums, theatres and boutiques. Belorussky Station and the Aeroexpress are a 15-minute walk, and Dinamo Metro — which can carry guests to the Kremlin and Red Square in around half an hour — is around 10 minutes on foot.

Style & character

8/10

The hotel’s Yar restaurant was opened as long ago as 1826 by a French merchant and chef, but the hotel itself was only opened in 1952 on the personal orders of Stalin, initially as a venue for government delegations. Largely forgotten following the fall of the Soviet Union, it was revived in 1998 and its public areas were refurbished in 19th-century style (high ceilings, oil paintings, parquet floors) with a throwback Fifties aesthetic for the rooms.

Service & facilities

7/10

The hotel does not have a spa or health club on site but offers free access to the nearby Pravda sports and fitness club (a 15-minute walk around the corner), which has a gym with modern machines and equipment, a swimming pool and regular classes. On the hotel’s second floor there is a billiards table, and the front desk — manned around the clock — is staffed by friendly and multilingual staff that offer a range of services from limousine and taxi services to sightseeing tours and tickets for the theatre or concerts.

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Rooms

8/10

The rooms, while not as opulent as the public areas, are elegant, nostalgic and comfortable, a kind of 'bourgeois communism' featuring handsome antique furnishings, comfy beds and mod-cons like TVs, Wi-Fi and minibars. Some of the original apartment-suites have also been retained, and are twice the size, with extra living areas complete with armchairs, sofas and coffee tables, and fluffy dressing gowns and slippers in the bathrooms. Room 301, formerly used by Vasily Stalin (son of Josef), still carries his name and is the most lavish, with two bathrooms, marble columns and pictures of Russian artists of the beginning of the 20th century.

Food & drink

8/10

The historic and vast Yar restaurant is one of the most impressive spaces in the hotel, all green carpets and white columns, a menu of traditional Russian food served as part of a nightly cabaret-style show dinner. There’s a pleasant terrace that’s opened up during summer, and the buffet-style breakfast served in the mornings is reasonably expansive — though not world-beating — with a decent mix of breads, meats, cheeses, hot dishes and juices. The lobby-bar near the hotel entrance also serves drinks and snacks throughout the day and evening, and the basement nightclub Monte Carlo — which features strip shows — is open every night.

Value for money

9/10

Double rooms from 4,800 Russian Rubles (£59) in low season; and from 6400 Russian Rubles (£79) in high. Breakfast included and Wi-Fi free.

Access for guests with disabilities?

The hotel does not have any facilities for guests with disabilities.

Family-friendly?

The hotel welcomes families but does not have any specific facilities.